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    Default Are most of the people attracted to similar looking or the is the opposite?

    Well, I'd like to know your opinion since many of you have been debating about this topic. Do you find normal or weird that you're attracted to people who is physically different to you?

    I've found a study which demonstrates that we're attracted to those who resemble our parents, is it true? or what do you think about that?

    Study demonstrates sexual attraction to those who resemble our parents, ourselves

    (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers reporting in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin last week say people are drawn to others who resemble their parents or themselves. This may explain why incest taboos are found in many cultures - to counter a natural tendency.

    University of Illinois psychologist, Chris Fraley, said there had been a century-long debate on whether incest taboos are psychological or cultural adaptations designed to suppress a biological urge. In the early 20th century Sigmund Freud, a psychoanalyst, proposed it was psychological, while Edward Westermarck, a sociologist, proposed it was cultural. Westermarck thought there was a critical time in childhood during which people would not find attractive people who were raising them or raised with them.

    Most modern researchers think Westermarck was correct, but a new study led by Fraley suggests there may also be a psychological component in which we align ourselves with our kin, who are genetically close to us.

    The research involved three experiments. In the first, volunteers were shown pictures of strangers’ faces and asked to rate them on sexual attractiveness. They were unaware that they were also being shown photographs just before the strangers’ faces, and these were flashed so quickly they could only be processed subliminally. Half the volunteers were flashed a picture of their opposite gender parent, while the remaining subjects were flashed a picture of an unrelated person.

    The results of this experiment were that those who were exposed to a picture of their parent generally found the stranger's face more sexually attractive than those who were shown the photo of an unrelated person. A second experiment used images of two faces morphed together. The control group was shown images of faces of strangers morphed together, but the other subjects were shown faces that were composites of a stranger's face and (unknowingly) up to 45% their own face. They then rated the sexual attractiveness of the morph.

    In this experiment the subjects shown images containing their own face found the picture more sexually attractive.

    In the final experiment the volunteers were again shown composite pictures, and half were told the composites included their own faces, while the rest were not. In fact none of the composites contained the subjects’ faces. They were again asked to rate their sexual attractiveness.

    The results showed the subjects who believed the composites contained their own image rated it as less sexually attractive than those who did not.

    Fraley said all the experiments support Freud’s argument that we are subconsciously attracted to features reminiscent of our own, and cultural aversions to incest were developed to override the “primitive drive.” So when we are aware of the relationship we are not sexually attracted, but when the awareness is bypassed we are in fact more sexually attracted to our kin.

    Another explanation for the results is that our brains can simply process familiar images more easily, and Fraley said further experiments are needed to test this idea.

    More information: Westermarck, Freud, and the Incest Taboo: Does Familial Resemblance Activate Sexual Attraction? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Published online before print July 20, 2010, doi:10.1177/0146167210377180 © 2010 PhysOrg.com

    Read more at: http://phys.org/news199509031.html#jCp
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    It depends. I am attracted to mestiza women, but I am also very attracted to Mediterranean women.

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    Yeah for sure, this is an an evolutional principle, thats why you see so many blonde couples and in general
    couples who resemble each other. Humans always primarily look for their equivalent or someone who looks very close to their parents to reproduce. Only if people don`t achieve to find a partner corresponding to this anthpological rule they comfort with so. looking different.
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    Not really idk it depends in the person . My type of guy it's like Taylor Lautner , Johnny Depp yet they don't resemble my father or any family member . Also I'm attracted to every race as long as they have a good looking face . The person who I'm with right now, he's British / French . I'm none of those
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    opposite!!!! opposite!!! opposite!! I have a lot of Irish mates, and they are all also for the most part very intruged when they see an exotic looking beautiful brunette. They would probably be more intrigued by her rather than an Irish woman on a night out, who they are used to.

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    There is only one rule: there are no rules! You are born with a specific taste and whatever external influences there are they are shaped early on in your childhood. There is nothing anyone can do about what they like, except for eliminating ego all together, we are talking about a handful at the most individuals who have enlightened minds anywhere on the planet at any given time, they have no preferences whatsoever.

    So in conclusion two very important statements:

    1)You like what you like.

    2)It is what it is.

    That's all there is to it. You can build a lot of very complicated theories about it, a lot of people make good living doing just that, but it boils down to the two above mentioned statements.

    That's it!

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    Calling dr. fraud, I'm attracted to different looking people than myself, I think it's natures way of discouraging inbreeding. BTW something that sets "Europoids" apart from others is their variation, hell I don't even have the same eye color as either of my parents.

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    Similar but not "Too Similar"

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    Quote Originally Posted by liamliam View Post
    opposite!!!! opposite!!! opposite!! I have a lot of Irish mates, and they are all also for the most part very intruged when they see an exotic looking beautiful brunette. They would probably be more intrigued by her rather than an Irish woman on a night out, who they are used to.
    I think in Mexico happens something similar but what I've observed is that in spite of a "exotic face" might be occasionally more interesting, most of the people tend to look a person who resembles him/her when they want to have a serious relationship or they want to marry. That doesn't mean there aren't interracial relations but they're minory.

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    Quote Originally Posted by liamliam View Post
    opposite!!!! opposite!!! opposite!! I have a lot of Irish mates, and they are all also for the most part very intruged when they see an exotic looking beautiful brunette. They would probably be more intrigued by her rather than an Irish woman on a night out, who they are used to.
    Why am I not surprised? LOL

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